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Subject: HOW LONG IS IT SINCE THE HALO WAS FIRST ACTIVATED?
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Well since i have not read any book,all i know about it is that it fired 100,000 LOCAL years ago (halo 1).Does anyone know how that translates in human years?I am thinking about theories for halo3 and i was wondering if the amound of time (earth time) since the halo was activated is known?

  • 07.19.2006 3:21 AM PDT
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A really really really really really really long time. Think of like 200 trillion trips to the bathroom.

  • 07.19.2006 3:29 AM PDT
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And i believe it was 100,000 years ago

  • 07.19.2006 4:56 AM PDT
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Please stop the all caps.

And i believe it was 100,000 years ago

sorry about caps.But is 100,000 local yrs the same as 100,000 earth yrs? And if it is really so then i dont think the amound of time is enough for evolution to reach the point where it is now.Think about the planet of the Elites.The small creatures that survived would have to evolve into larger creatures and then into the elites we know.These things take many many thousands of years,perhaps millions of years.Even if it happened faster still the elites(and so the prophets and other races)would not have managed to reach such high technological level(higher than humans who actually survived the blust and are so the oldest race alive)

  • 07.19.2006 5:24 AM PDT

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well, 2401 said that the installation had 1.2 trillion test fires (and one actual). If you play the level "Halo" on Halo: ce, the time between each firing times 1.2 trillion comes out to be circa 100,000 earth years.

  • 07.19.2006 6:20 AM PDT
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It was alot more than 100,000 years. It was the big bang. So we're talking billions of years- millions of years before earth was inhabitable.

  • 07.19.2006 6:49 AM PDT
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And where is your proof that it is the big bang? It's even been said that the firing was 100,000 years ago.

  • 07.19.2006 7:00 AM PDT
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In any case it cant be billions of years unless of course the forrunners had nothing to do with humans.But again if it was 100,000 years and if only humans survived the blast(among sentient beings) then i cant see how the other races managed to evolve that fast.It took smaller mammals on earth 65,000,000 years to evolve into larger animals and eventually into what humans are today.

  • 07.19.2006 8:09 AM PDT
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Approximately 100,000 years. To be exact "101,217 local years" as stated by 343GS. Staten mentioned that those local years are very close to Earth years.

  • 07.19.2006 8:14 AM PDT